Apollo 12 command module just before splashdown

Apollo 12 was launched at 11:22:00 a.m. EST on November 14, 1969. The
mission plan called for a landing in the Oceanus Procellarum, or Ocean of
Storms, area of the Moon. The post-flight evaluation of the mission was that
all goals had been successfully completed.

From left: Charles “Pete” Conrad, Richard F. Gordon and Alan L. Bean

Apollo 12 was the sixth manned flight in the United States Apollo program
and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched from the Kennedy
Space Center,Florida, four months after Apollo 11. Mission commander
Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed
just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while the
Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit.

   
                                                                                            Tim Maguire

Apollo 7 was the first mission in the United States’ Apollo program to carry a crew
into space. It was also the first American space flight to carry astronauts into low
Earth orbit after a cabin fire killed the Apollo 1 crew in 1967. Apollo 1, also known
as AS-204, originally was to be the first flight. Instead, Apollo 7 carried out the
mission that Apollo 1 was scheduled to do. The crew was commanded by Walter
M. Schirra, with Command Module Pilot Donn F. Eisele, and Lunar Module Pilot
R. Walter Cunningham.